“Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.”
Nicholas Sparks A Bend in the Road
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“But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.”
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Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient 1859–1952Related quotes
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Source: P.S. I Still Love You
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Even at the age of 102 he said this as quoted in [Our Leaders, http://books.google.com/books?id=YwTh-vjSFXUC&pg=PA51, 1989, Children's Book Trust, 978-81-7011-701-8, 63]
